Horrible Histories

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Title Horrible Histories

The front cover of France.
Author Terry Deary
Illustrator Martin Brown; Philip Reeve; Peter Hepplewhite
Cover artist Martin Brown; Philip Reeve; Peter Hepplewhite
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Subject(s) Periods of, and people in, history
Genre(s) Children's; history
Publisher Scholastic
Released 1993

Horrible Histories is a series of illustrated books published in the United Kingdom by Scholastic. They are designed to get children interested in history by concentrating on the trivial, unusual, gory, or unpleasant. The series has proved exceptionally successful in commercial terms. The books are written by Terry Deary and illustrated by Martin Brown.

The first books in the series, The Terrible Tudors and The Awesome Egyptians, were published in June 1993.

Contents

[edit] Titles in Progress

[edit] 2007

  • Horrible Histories Annual 2008 - (Aug 07) (Calendar)
  • Horrible Histories Handbook - Witches - (Sept 07) (Witches)
  • Horrible Histories Handbook - Gladiators (Gladiators)
  • Horrible Histories Handbook - Warriors - (Mar 07) (Warriors)
  • Horrible Histories Handbook - Villains - (Villains)
  • Horrible Histories - China - (History of China)
  • Horrible Histories City - Oxford - (Feb 07) (History of Oxford)
  • Horrible Histories - Wales - (Feb 08) (History of Wales)
  • Horrible Histories pop-up book - (Sept 08)
  • The Wicked History of Britain
  • Horrible Histories Handbook - World War II
  • Horrible Histories Handbook – Spies
  • Horrible Histories Romans Shuffle Puzzle
  • Horrible Histories - Who's who in history
  • Horrible History of the World – mini edition
  • Horrible Histories Fiction - The Greeks
  • Horrible Histories Fiction - The Vikings

[edit] 2008

  • Horrible Histories Wales
  • Horrible Histories Handbook - First World War
  • Horrible Histories - Savage Sticker Book
  • Horrible Histories - Tudors Action Pack
  • Horrible Histories Annual 2009
  • Horrible Christmas – mini edition

[edit] 2009 plans

  • WW2 Horrible Histories Handbook – Evacuees
  • Egyptian Shuffle Puzzle

[edit] Titles in the series

France.
France.
The Slimy Stuarts.
The Slimy Stuarts.
The Rotten Romans.
The Rotten Romans.

There are also the 'Two Horrible Books in One' versions

[edit] Contradictions

In the Horrible Histories series, there are two books titled The Horrible History of the World and The Wicked History of the World; however, they are the same book, only with different headings. The same incident occurred with The Horribly Huge Quiz Book and Massive Millennium Quiz Book, and The Mad Millennium and Mad Millennium Play. Also, there are two different covers for Horrible Christmas.

[edit] Controversy

The book Bloody Scotland drew the ire of the tiny Scottish Separatist Group, who claimed it promoted a "UK centric, anti-Scottish viewpoint of Scottish history", using comments like "Cook the haggis until it looks like a hedgehog after the fifteenth lorry has run over it". They reported the book to the Commission for Racial Equality, who rejected their claim [1].

The National Trust was unhappy with Cruel Kings and Mean Queens because it made jokes about Prince Charles's ears (the prince is the trust's patron) and Queen Elizabeth II[1].

According to Terry Deary's homepage, the content of the book The USA has been banned in some areas[citation needed]. There was also some controversy on eBay about The Barmy British Empire, over what Queen Victoria said in the book about her husband, Albert[citation needed].

[edit] Sticker and Activity Books

There are also quite a number of 'Horrible Histories Sticker and Activity Books'

[edit] Audio Tapes

There is also a large collection of Audio tapes including:

  • The Woeful Second World War
  • The Terrible Tudors
  • The Vicious Vikings
  • The Frightful First World War
  • The Groovy Greeks
  • The Vile Victorians
  • The Measly Middle Ages
  • The Rotten Romans
  • The Savage Stone Age
  • The Stormin' Normans

[edit] Magazines

In late 2003 Terry Deary released the Horrible Histories Magazine Collection and in 2005 some of the titles in the series were released as free audiobooks as part of a promotion with breakfast cereal. Here is a list of the 60 Issues of the Magazine in the order in which they are received:

Magazine 5: The Measly Middle Ages
Magazine 5: The Measly Middle Ages

According to Horrible Histories, the series had become so popular that they decided to add another 20 issues to the magazine collection.

The issues continue as follows:

There have also been three 'special' magazines in the series.

They are:

[edit] TV

There has also been a TV series made out of Horrible Histories featuring Stitch and Mo as they embark on journeys to discover the real secrets of the past - the gory ones.

The series consists of: (This list is incomplete)

[edit] Season 1

  • Episode 1: Terrible Tudors

Original Air Date: 1 January 2001

  • Episode 2: Angry Aztecs

Original Air Date: January 2001

  • Episode 3: Measly Middle Ages

Original Air Date: January 2001

  • Episode 4: Vicious Vikings

Original Air Date: 1 February 2001

  • Episode 5: Groovy Greeks

Original Air Date: 2001

  • Episode 6: Rotten Romans

Original Air Date: 8 February 2001

  • Episode 7: The Wild West

Original Air Date: 2001

  • Episode 8: Savage Stone Age

Original Air Date: 21 February 2001

  • Episode 9: Revolting Revolution

Original Air Date: 21 February 2001

  • Episode 10: Royal Pain

Original Air Date: 1 March 2001

  • Episode 11: Ingenious Industrialists

Original Air Date: 7 March 2001

  • Episode 12: Marvelous Marco Polo

Original Air Date: 28 March 2001

  • Episode 13: Trading Timbuktu

Original Air Date: 6 April 2001

[edit] Season 2

  • Episode 1: Battlin' Bolivar

Original Air Date: 1 January 2002

  • Episode 2: Amazing Aussies

Original Air Date: 8 January 2002

  • Episode 3: Challenging China

Original Air Date: 15 January 2002

  • Episode 4: Magnificent Mounties

Original Air Date: 22 January 2002

  • Episode 5: Rockin' Renaissance

Original Air Date: 29 January 2002

  • Episode 6: Ancient Egypt

Original Air Date: January 2002

  • Episode 7: Perilous Plagues

Original Air Date: 14 February 2002

  • Episode 8: Stormin' Scots

Original Air Date: 21 February 2002

  • Episode 9: Surprising Samurai

Original Air Date: 28 February 2002

  • Episode 12: Extraordinary Explorers

Original Air Date: January 2002

[edit] Kellogs CDs

Horrible Histories teamed up with Kellogs to produce a set of audiobooks for the following books:

  • The Rotten Romans
  • The Vicious Vikings
  • The Measly Middle Ages
  • The Vile Victorians
  • Incredible Ireland
  • The Terrible Tudors

All of the CDs are read by Terry Deary and were available inside some Kellogs cerials.

[edit] Fictions

A series of fiction written by Terry Deary about history will be published, but all are still in progress.

  • Horrible Histories Fiction - The Romans - (Jul 07)
  • Horrible Histories Fiction - The Egyptians - (Jul 07)
  • Horrible Histories Fiction - The Tudors
  • Horrible Histories Fiction - The Victorians
  • Horrible Histories Fiction - The Greeks

[edit] Spin-Offs

There have been several spin-offs written in a similar style to Horrible Histories:

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b "Horrible Histories Causes Havoc", House of Books, URL retrieved 24 December 2006

[edit] External links

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